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Dana’s expression is hard to read; they’re getting good at that, these days, exchanging one mask for another like the poet wrote over a hundred years ago. Preparing faces for the faces that they meet. You don’t even need a cape, a cowl, a domino. Invisible masks hide the most.

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Adam was pretty sure that he could live for the rest of his life without ever again being called a mix between Lady Gaga and Freddie Mercury, only black. Because as much as he adored them both, he had pretty much bought the elementary school lesson that every person was their own. Adam certainly didn't mind musical comparisons, he rather expected them, but the addition of the words "only black" seemed to say that apart from the allegedly tiny matter of skin color, they could contain everything that was him.